[SAC] OSGeo Id creation disabled

[Alex Mandel]

On 04/28/2016 01:41 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 02:42:52PM -0700, Alex M wrote:
> 
>> As a follow-up, we are now looking for someone who wants to improve our
>> creation system with Captcha, and/or email confirmation. If you think
>> you can build (or modify the existing) such a system to work with our
>> LDAP please contact the osgeo System Administration Committee (SAC).
> 
> Should this part be sent on osgeo-discuss ?

Maybe, all the people who run sites using this should be on the SAC
list. We could add a link to the maintenance page on how to contact SAC.

> Anyway, what about doing something simple like asking to enter
> a number derived from some request headers ? Like the first
> 5 characters of the md5 of the remote ip ...
>

Yes anything for now that is hard for a bot (since it might get
re-written). With a more robust solution later.

Thanks,
Alex